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A Lull for Blu-ray, Good or Bad?

Posted on May 14, 2008

I'm glad NPD came out with their numbers after I had forecasted Blu-ray to be another 12+ months from take off. No one liked me jumping the bandwagon. But this isn't a lull for Blu-ray, it hasn't even got going yet. Oh - did you just mean disc playback? Sure, they can do that, most of the time. And of course PS3 sales have bouyed the whole standard. But BD vendors are a good 12 months away from a robust platform that supports BD Live out of the box and retails at a price point the average consumer might consider. A sales associate at a major retailer, told me they got a shipme...

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